• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Bulbophyllum sterile (Lam.) Suresh
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllorchis nilgherensis (Wight) Kuntze
• Vernacular name : Pottle kai (Kannada); Palka Ranam (Telugu); Mookottakaya (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic herb on tall trees in moist deciduous forests to evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Bulbs turn yellow with age
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Tiruchirapalli district, The Nilgiri district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, T. & Karuppusamy, S., 2008. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 5.; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Bulbophyllum neilgherensis. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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